4 Things You Need To Know To Be Emotionally Intelligent
The first thing I learned as an FBI agent was that I would need to be emotionally intelligent if I planned to live long enough to spend my retirement pension. Agents who are emotionally intelligent have the ability to read the emotions of others before a gun is drawn...
Here Is How Smart People Can Stop Sabotaging Their Success
I grew up on a remote cattle ranch in Wyoming, and while I learned to ride horseback at the age of 6, my brother and I had to share a horse for a few summer months while mine healed from a sprained ankle. One day that summer Dad announced that he needed to help a...
Beware The Problem Of A “Feel Good” Culture
We’re in the middle of a “make everyone feel good” culture where it’s important everyone walks away a winner. The idea that everyone gets a blue ribbon because they showed up produces a mindset that doesn’t understand how to cope with risk. Success is handed to them...
The Most Important Thing No One Ever Taught You
How well do you know yourself? We plan for retirement and vacations, but we seldom plan for how we’ll become a better person, the person we want to be, not the one shaped by our circumstances. Most of us assume that we’ll get the gist of this whole...
How You Can Be More Resilient When Things Get Hard
The things that come closest to killing us are the things that make us grow. Damn, why do life’s best lessons need to come wrapped up in adversity? Our obstacles will not define us; we will be defined by how we overcame them. We’ve all experienced adversity in some...
This Is Why You Need More Than Love
To hear the movies and books tell it, love is the answer to all our problems. Most of us learn early on that the movies and books have it all wrong. There’s a clear difference between our notion of what love should be like and what its really like. It’s a hard lesson,...
How To Have The Courage To Move Into A Brave Place
Life can suck. There are days when things go so badly that you want a refund. We’ve all heard that acceptance to the key to good psychological health, but that does nothing more than leave us in a continual state of anxiety because what we all want is a semblance of...
This Is How You Build Trust In Your Relationships
We already know that there will be people we encounter who will be untrustworthy, or worse, dishonest. We will face betrayals, big and small, in life. It might be a colleague, spouse, employer, or stranger. Even worse, the betrayal might come from a family member or...
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